A judge’s preliminary injunction blocking parts of the Trump administration’s admissions-data collection connects back to broader admissions-policy litigation stemming from the Supreme Court’s limits on race-conscious admissions. The government’s ACTS initiative was framed as enforcing compliance after SFFA v. Harvard, but plaintiffs argued it would impose sweeping administrative burdens and effectively sidestep the new legal regime. The decision preserves college flexibility for now by halting collection of applicant and enrolled-student race and socioeconomic data—information colleges typically treat as sensitive and time-intensive to verify. It also delays integration of ACTS into IPEDS reporting for affected institutions. As the Department of Education and OMB continue legal review, universities face ongoing uncertainty about whether future compliance frameworks will demand more detailed data collection under different timing or narrower scopes. The development is likely to influence how campus compliance offices plan for admissions reporting and how institutions prepare for additional legal challenges.